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From: tlh@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas L. Hausmann)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
Message-ID: <3262@arthur.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 88 17:53:03 GMT
References: <26@dogie.edu>, <3340@killer.UUCP> <1988Feb19.204048.3727@utzoo.uucp>
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Summary: old days

In article <1988Feb19.204048.3727@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Once it was the mark of an educated man that he could tell time by the sun,
> without mechanical assistance.  Can you?

  It was also the mark of a mathematician to do long laborious computations by
  hand.  As others have said, we need no longer do this (by hand) but drills have
  their place.

  -Tom